Free at the Whitney

Every Friday evening from 5–10 pm and on the second Sunday of every month, admission to the Museum is free. Both offerings include free access to exhibitions, special programming, city views, and more. Visitors 25 and under are always free, every day. 

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Gap–Lichtenstein–Whitney

Our collaboration with Gap and the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein brings the artist’s bold visual language to an 18-piece collection of clothing and accessories. Bold patterns on sherpa. Graphic prints on tees. This is art—worn by you.

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Family Programs

Whitney family programs offer artmaking workshops, special events and tours, in-gallery activity guides, and at-home artmaking challenges. Join us for upcoming family events or Free Second Sundays.

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Video

Watch our latest video series to dive deeper into art at the Whitney.

Podcasts

Listen to Artists Among Us, featuring long-form and short-form podcasts exploring artworks and events in and around the Whitney through conversation.

artport

Check out art that's created specifically for the web on artport—the Whitney's gallery space for commissions of net art.


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  • Large mixed-media collage with colorful drips and textures and a sculpted bird perched on top.
    Large mixed-media collage with colorful drips and textures and a sculpted bird perched on top.

    Robert Rauschenberg, Satellite, 1955. Oil, fabric, paper and wood on canvas with taxidermied pheasant, overall: 79 3/8 × 43 5/16 × 5 5/8 in. (201.6 × 110 × 14.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Claire B. Zeisler and purchase with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund 91.85. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • A painted wooden sculpture of a man and woman reaching hands as if dancing on a pedestal.
    A painted wooden sculpture of a man and woman reaching hands as if dancing on a pedestal.

    Elie Nadelman, Tango, c. 1920–1924. Painted and gessoed cherry wood, overall: 36 × 25 5/8 × 13 7/8 in. (91.4 × 65.1 × 35.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul Purchase Fund, the Joan and Lester Avnet Purchase Fund, the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Purchase Fund, the Mrs. Robert C. Graham Purchase Fund in honor of John I.H. Baur, the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund and the Henry Schnakenberg Purchase Fund in honor of Juliana Force 88.1a-c. © Estate of Elie Nedelman

  • Large abstract painting with layered horizontal color bands including pink cloud, green hills, and deep blue foreground.
    Large abstract painting with layered horizontal color bands including pink cloud, green hills, and deep blue foreground.

    Helen Frankenthaler, Flood, 1967. Acrylic on canvas, overall: 124 1/4 × 140 1/2 in. (315.6 × 356.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art 68.12. © Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • Stylized torso wearing textured, wrapped black garments with cutouts against a gray background.
    Stylized torso wearing textured, wrapped black garments with cutouts against a gray background.

    Christina Ramberg, Istrian River Lady, 1974. Acrylic on composition board, with wood frame, overall: 35 3/8 × 31 1/4 × 1 5/8 in. (89.9 × 79.4 × 4.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Frederic M. Roberts in memory of their son, James Reed Roberts 74.12a-b. Courtesy of the Estate of Christina Ramberg & Corbett vs. Dempsey.

  • A hand uses pliers to cut barbed wire in front of a tall watchtower.
    A hand uses pliers to cut barbed wire in front of a tall watchtower.

    Toyo Miyatake, Untitled (Opening Image from Valediction), 1944. Gelatin silver print mounted on board, sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 5/16 in. (24 × 18.6 cm) Image: 9 3/8 × 7 1/4 in. (23.8 × 18.4 cm) Mount: 17 × 13 15/16 × 1/16 in. (43.2 × 35.4 × 0.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2014.243. © Toyo Miyatake Studio

  • Painted with angular lines and emotionless faces, three suited men gaze over two open caskets, with a courthouse in the background
    Painted with angular lines and emotionless faces, three suited men gaze over two open caskets, with a courthouse in the background

    Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1931–1932. Tempera on canvas mounted on composition board, overall: 84 × 48 in. (213.4 × 121.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Edith and Milton Lowenthal in memory of Juliana Force 49.22. © Estate of Ben Shahn / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

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